Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2025

Three months into 2025, we have seen a barrage of on-again, off-again tariffs that have supply chain and logistics teams reeling, as they must rethink everything from next weeks shipping route to their foundational network models. The Ukraine-Russia conflict is ongoing. Tensions flare in the Middle East without warning. billion to $23.07

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 16, 2025

Datacenter Hardware: The demand for powerful computing to train ever larger and more accurate AI models is insatiable. AWS has custom AI chips Trainium and Inferentia , for training and running large AI models. Key announcements from the event include: Introduction of ChatGPT Pro : This broadened the usage of frontier AI.

Modeling Software 119

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 2, 2024

During COVID, this more agile and resilient model allowed the firm to grow their market share. An iGPU (integrated graphic processing unit) is a current example. As an example, if we have congested lanes, the system will automatically flag that we have a potential risk of delay based. Factories serve local markets.

Supply Chain Planning Software 117

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MTS Logistics

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

There are many different models that ensure success in any company, but for the purposes of simplicity, we have chosen one model: the 4 Ps of logistics (product, price, promotion, and place). For example, a company’s logo, the name of the company, packaging designs and methods, services provided, etc.

Modeling Software 111

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 1, 2025

For example, with a data gateway, a supply planner gains accelerated access to customer orders, inventory levels, and transportation schedules, all in one place, to increase the user experience of making the right choice to identify inefficiencies and make better, more informed decisions.

Optimal Sourcing 109

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Logistics Viewpoints

APRIL 7, 2025

Digital twins are emerging as digital transformation accelerators for supply chain and logistics organizations seeking enterprise-level visibility, real-time scenario modeling, and operational agility under disruption. These are not static dashboards or simple visualizationstheyre living, data-rich models of real-world operations.

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 20, 2025

The system can detect a deviation from a forecast, for example, and yet understand if the deviation is in an allowable range and that an alert does not have to be generated. However, unexpected events do happen. For example, a large customer may place a large, unforeseen order that becomes visible at 9:00 a.m.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 10, 2025

The quarter was particularly impressive given, as you know, we were, a victim of a cyber ransomware event. Returns, Mr. Tollefson pointed out, is an example of an application that must have the network at its core. When that occurs, the deal sizes grow. Deal size almost doubled year over year. This business was up 5x year-over-year.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 3, 2025

What Celanese has accomplished is the single best example ARC is aware of employing agentic AI and copilots at scale. The occurrence of any of these events disrupts the global supply chain and can deeply impact profitability. One event could create so much churn, Mr. Al Syed explained. Celanese is an exception.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 11, 2025

For example, with a data gateway, a supply planner gains accelerated access to customer orders, inventory levels, and transportation schedules, all in one place, to increase the user experience of making the right choice to identify inefficiencies and make better, more informed decisions.

Optimal Sourcing 132

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Logistics Bureau

AUGUST 16, 2021

For example, signs that a company is moving in the right direction, talent-wise, might include: The deployment of staff in new roles, absent the traditional supply-chain-centric titles and instead, hybridizing across data-science and logistics skill sets.

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Logistics Bureau

JANUARY 16, 2025

The resilience of your supply chain is determined by its structure and operations, whether we’re dealing with major immediate events like a pandemic or gradual systemic changes to your business environment over time. Effective modelling can have a significant impact on your supply chains resilience.

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3PL Links

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

By leveraging predictive analytics and a just-in-time (JIT) inventory model, you can maintain optimal stock levels, which reduces storage costs and cuts down on waste from unsold items. Example: Retail giant Zara uses real-time data from its stores to adjust inventory dynamically.

Cost Reduction 62

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WorkWave

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Businesses can utilize advanced algorithms and machine learning models to predict demand and route performance under varying conditions. This predictive modeling allows businesses to proactively adjust their delivery strategies, ensuring that they allocate resources efficiently and meet customer expectations.

Optimal Sourcing 105

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MTS Logistics

MARCH 12, 2025

For example, numerous ports are still severely congested today. Weather events will continue to impact in 2025. years on planning and operating through a hub model. Gulf exporters that are shipping pretty much anywhere that goes via transshipment. The situation is not very different at destination ports either.

Cost Reduction 89

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 21, 2021

ML looks into historical data (for example, transit time statistics of carriers) and data from impactful external factors (such as port congestion, weather or holidays) and uses this information to develop more accurate transit time estimates. The model learns continuously and can adapt to changing conditions in the network.

Supply Chain Planning Software 145

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Talking Logistics

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

When you’re in the market for a TMS, it’s important to look beyond terms like SaaS or cloud in order to really understand your hosting options, how the data model will enable better business efficiencies and service, and the ease of integrations. Data Models Influence Flexibility.

Modeling Software 81

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Logistics Viewpoints

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Lead times, for example, are a critical form of master data for planning purposes. In process industries the supply chain models used for optimization are much more complex than those used in other industries. The processing units in an oil refinery, for example, operate at high temperature and high pressure.

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Risk events that happen in one part of the supply chain can cause a disruptive effect that is amplified multi-fold given the complex connectivity of labor, raw materials, and capacity. The bullwhip effect is one example of this disruptive effect, when small changes in demand cause huge demand spikes downstream.

Supply Chain Design Software 119

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Logistics Viewpoints

MAY 22, 2023

For it to be an optimal solution, a mathematical model needs to be used. That model can then be used to analyze every new situation that arises. The model will help a company find a solution that is best for their relocated employees as a whole. Because of these similarities, they might group them all together in the model.

Supply Chain Design Software 112

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Logistics Viewpoints

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Organizations must take the following steps to bring departments together to create truly resilient and sustainable supply chains: Leverage external data to sense market shifts Look to external causal factors and forecasting models to identify market shifts. By identifying these gaps, you can create sourcing events to close them.

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AIMMS

MAY 22, 2018

New import tariffs being introduced across the globe, extreme weather events, Brexit… The list goes on and on. For example, we don’t know where the next tsunami or hurricane will hit. Let’s consider some examples. What happens if one of my manufacturing plants goes down due to an unforeseen weather event?

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 8, 2022

At that time, I wrote about the COVID pandemic, and how similar events occur that elevate the uncertainty of the market. These events make accurate forecasting very difficult. For example, interest rate hikes tend to deter lower priority investments and those that require debt financing. Review of Prior Impactful Events.

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Ship Monk

AUGUST 28, 2023

B2B, B2C, C2B, C2C, DTC — that looks more like a bowl of alphabet soup than a list of business models, and we’ve just scratched the surface. Let’s take a look at the different types of ecommerce business models out there, with some examples of each. What is a Business Model?

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

But for that special class of disruption, the low-probability, high-impact events like natural disasters, epidemics and other upheavals, organizations don’t know how to mitigate the risk and successfully manage their supply chains, and are now trying to find their way through the minefield of issues and challenges with no clear solution.

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 27, 2023

Machine learning also makes it possible to make more granular forecasts – for example, instead of forecasting demand for the company’s products in the Eastern Region of the U.S., Demand models need to be continuously updated. The model can be updated to reflect a demand spike for that city during the relevant period.

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Logistics Viewpoints

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

And agility is about reacting quickly and hopefully effectively to the actual disruptive event. But the event might not be disruptive at all if you had planned for it. But Mr. Delbar from OMP points out that our models are not integrated enough. Our SCP models do not understand the constraints of key suppliers or partners.

Supply Chain Planning Software 111

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Logistics Viewpoints

MARCH 15, 2022

Industrial data scientists’ core mission is to build more comprehensive, performant and sustainable AI/ML models that are fit-for-purpose, domain-specific and address focused, real-world use cases. Hybrid modelling combines the first principle knowledge with experience and new insights from data.

Data 127

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Logistics Viewpoints

JUNE 10, 2024

12,000 SAP customers and partners attended the event, and another 15,000 watched remotely. When SAP refers to AI, it refers to generative AI based on large language models or AI based on machine learning. I might tell Alexa, for example, “Play the station Smooth Jazz!” For example, lead times are often set and then ignored.

SAP 131

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Logistics Viewpoints

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Additionally, software vendors continuously invest in tuning the performance of their algorithms and models. For example, running a batch process that now takes 8 hours instead of 12 does not translate into supply chain agility. Supply chain management talent continues to be in short supply and attrition due to burn out is still high.

Supply Chain Planning Software 121

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Ship Monk

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

For example, if you’re introducing a new product and there are no similar products to draw historical data from, qualitative research is a must to reduce risk. A more mature product may not need qualitative research at all, or only occasionally to test a promotion for example. Analyze past and current sales trends.

eCommerce 105

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Logistics Viewpoints

AUGUST 15, 2024

Companies can also test-drive their supply chains by introducing the uncertainty of events that are difficult, if not impossible, to predict with accuracy. These events can range from minor supply disruption or canceled shipments to significant black swan events. suppliers impact your ability to deliver.

Scenario Planning 124

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Logistics Viewpoints

JANUARY 4, 2021

The theory is that as more and more devices throughout the supply chain and manufacturing process become part of the ‘Internet of Things,’ they will produce an incredibly rich data stream that will send signals in real-time to trigger a wide variety of events. Digital Twin Model Builders. PlanIQ includes Amazon Forecast.

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Material Handling and Logistics

DECEMBER 6, 2018

Servitization offers a new business model that shifts a company’s emphasis from what it makes to what it can offer customers. Servitization is a business model in which a machine (i.e., For example, a public warehouse forklift user could be charged a fee of $3.75/ton A New Business Model. break/fix) and improve (i.e.,

Logistics Network Optimization Software 100

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Trinity Logistics

JANUARY 19, 2024

Foundational Model This is where the training/learning takes place, where you’re teaching the AI how to look at things and look at input. Large Language Model (LLM) This model is trained on vast amounts of text, can interpret what you’re asking of it, and can put a response in words that you can understand.

Supply Chain Software 127

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SYSPRO Smarter ERP

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

This pressure is coming both from healthcare providers and consumers who may also now have a choice between a medical device and a consumer device that performs a similar function – hearing aids vs earphones is an example. A new business model. The standard business model for medical device manufacturers has been to sell a product.

ERP 105

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Logistics Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2024

3PLs may have to reinvent their business model in these cases, if they want to continue serving such customers, possibly becoming the Uber of their logistics sector for needs ranging from massive bulk transport down to individual, end-customer deliveries. Cloud computing itself is a prime example.

3PL 74

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